Shirlie
Shirlie was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 1,288 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shirlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shirlie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,065, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1935, the peak
Shirlie peaked in 1935, when 60 girls were given it, #895 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #9,065 | 4.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,489 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,683 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,662 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,490 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,756 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,294 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,132 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,897 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,283 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 10 | #4,127 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,754 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,367 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,921 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,783 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,838 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,997 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,594 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,853 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,937 | 14.7 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,803 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,444 | 24.5 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,277 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,784 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,470 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,601 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,437 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,375 | 27.4 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,262 | 30.8 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,576 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,051 | 43.3 |
| 1935 | 60 | #895 | 57.2 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,256 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,240 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,419 | 27.2 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,256 | 31.9 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,427 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,211 | 34.9 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,131 | 39.9 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,299 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 58 | #986 | 48.9 |
| 1925 | 53 | #1,047 | 43.5 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,224 | 34.4 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,827 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,226 | 34.1 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,406 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,805 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,190 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,276 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,086 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,351 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,193 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,115 | 6.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,810 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shirlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shirlie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shirlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shirlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 393 Americans named Shirlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 73 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 519 people named Shirlie (505 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Shirlie?
Shirlie is a less common spelling of Shirley: SSA has recorded 1,288 Shirlie and 695,934 Shirley since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 704,974 babies since 1880, Shirlie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 133 babies recorded by SSA was a Shirlie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shirlie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shirlie and names like it
- Compare Shirlie and ShirleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sShirlie peaked in 1935.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shirlie since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Shirlie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Shirlie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.